Google's Confusing Holiday-Themed Logo—Explained!

Google rolled out its holiday-themed logo this morning for googlers to enjoy in case they aren't planning on spending Christmas on their computers. Today's image took five artists 250 hours over six months to finish. But it's a bit confusing.

The 17 different card-shaped drawings don't look anything like the usual "Google," but the color sequence of blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red is the same. Otherwise it's indecipherable, or almost. SearchEngineLand.com was kind enough to decipher each image for us.

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The 17 portraits lead to the following search queries on Google:

St. Basil's Cathedral

Acropolis

Buche de Noel

pierogi

Great Wall of China

Mt. Fuji

Indian dance styles

Sahara desert

chili pepper

oud

Sydney Harbour

Venice gondolas

Nepal

Chilean vineyards

African kanga

Henna lamp

Up on the housetop

This is my last blog until after Christmas (and my birthday, I turn 29 tomorrow. One last year to be young and carefree!), so Merry Christmas!